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Speaker 1: Ron Anian, what is it like to be a mechanic?

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Speaker 1: What is it like to troy and fixed cars in

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Speaker 1: this modern age? And there's a lot of words like

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Speaker 1: it's difficult, you know, frustrating, you know, exciting, depressing. There's

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Speaker 1: just it's just like a wide range of emotion and scale.

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Speaker 2: Eam ly in appal thunder who we're.

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Speaker 3: Thinking that could walk through her wind on the driver's side.

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Speaker 4: But I feel a sin flashlight and need a old

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Speaker 4: fly smatic.

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Speaker 1: Having the car Doctor.

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Speaker 5: We're into an orders manual for a twenty fourteen rogue.

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Speaker 5: They recommend old twenty W but they're using the dealership

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Speaker 5: is using five W thirty conventional oil. Why I think dollars, Well, I.

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Speaker 1: Think they're wrong.

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Speaker 6: Welcome to the radio home of Ronananian, the Car Doctor

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Speaker 6: since nineteen ninety one. This is where car owners the

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Speaker 6: world overturned to for their definitive opinion an automotive repair.

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Speaker 6: If your mechanics giving you a busy signal, pick up

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Speaker 6: the phone and call in the garage doors.

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Speaker 1: Are opening, but I am here to take your call

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Speaker 1: at eight five five five six ninety nine.

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Speaker 7: Hundred and now pee.

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Speaker 1: It's a bumper cover, it's not a bumper. You know

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Speaker 1: that that all the all the structural support and all

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Speaker 1: the strength for that bumper is underneath. And it was

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Speaker 1: you know, she caught it, and she kind of and

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Speaker 1: he was, can you just put it back on? And

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Speaker 1: I said, you know, I've got to see it. I

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Speaker 1: kind of doubt that there isn't some sort of damage here.

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Speaker 1: So they drove it up, they brought it in, they

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Speaker 1: had picked up they had one of their kids come

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Speaker 1: by and uh, you know, they picked up the bumper

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Speaker 1: and put it in the back of her bigger car.

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Speaker 1: And you know, I got two cars that day. I

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Speaker 1: got the car without the bumper and the car with

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Speaker 1: the bumper in the back seat and stretching out into

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Speaker 1: the into the back of the vehicle, and we finagled

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Speaker 1: the bumper back out. We took our notes, signed a

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Speaker 1: repair order, and go. You know, it's amazing what holds

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Speaker 1: there's just something material, no pun intended, hanging on there

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Speaker 1: that's no you know, you look at the parts list

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Speaker 1: of what this vehicle took to repair because I had

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Speaker 1: Honda send me some pages. You know, I said, I

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Speaker 1: need to see the grill page. I need to see

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Speaker 1: lower belly pan, the front fender pair, and so on.

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Speaker 1: And I just went through the list and I said,

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Speaker 1: I need, you know item four, seven, nine, twelve, fifteen,

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Speaker 1: and whatever quantities are requested, because the problem becomes when

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Speaker 1: you go to put back together a fifteen year old vehicle,

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Speaker 1: a five year old vehicle in this case, though it

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Speaker 1: year old vehicle, all the clips have little sand and

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Speaker 1: and the clips break, and you know, there's just you know,

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Speaker 1: there's twenty five AO threeh seventy one clips holding this Honda.

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Speaker 1: Twenty five clips. You look at it, You go, where

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Speaker 1: the heck could you put twenty five plastic clips? But

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Speaker 1: I don't know, my mind works in funny ways. I

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Speaker 1: remember seeing I visited the Intrepid Airspace Museum in New

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Speaker 1: War Two, and I remember watching the rivets, looking at

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Speaker 1: The covers, the panels on the airplane were hand riveted

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Speaker 1: in place. Kuchink kuchink ku chink, kuchink ku chink. You

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Speaker 1: know that wasn't a machine doing it. That was Rosy

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Speaker 1: the riveter. And we man is to line all these

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Speaker 1: held these planes together. We sure have gotten better because

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Speaker 1: We have? We moved forward? I wonder. But it took

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Speaker 1: to yourself, is that really strong enough? Well that really?

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Speaker 1: what it's like to drive a piece of you know, metal,

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Speaker 1: something with steel and support and a big heavy bumper,

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Speaker 1: and you know, you look at the way cars were made,

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Speaker 1: then you look at the way cars are made now,

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Speaker 1: and you think technology, right, sure does take a lot

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Speaker 1: a Honda back together. Though I will tell you that,

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Speaker 1: well we did, and it looks better than new. Funny

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Speaker 1: thing is, she didn't even damage the bumper, So maybe

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Speaker 1: or the cover, I should say, the bumper cover. You know,

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Speaker 1: the bumper cover just she hit it and it came apart.

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Speaker 1: It did what it's supposed to do, was like a

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Speaker 1: and you know, it worked, So the bumper was okay.

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Speaker 1: It's just all the expense was all the little panels, clips, brackets,

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Speaker 1: just the wall gets pinned together. It's just just odd.

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Speaker 1: So and I just you know, so when you look

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Speaker 1: you better wear your seat belt and hope the airbag works,

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Speaker 1: and make sure the air bag works, and make sure

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Speaker 1: to work, because boy, there's not a whole lot up

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Speaker 1: there to protect you bumper. Sure are made like they

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Speaker 1: they are made better, but there's an awful lot of

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Speaker 1: so coming in the future. Hello and welcome Ronin Andy

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Speaker 1: and the Car Doctor here at a five five five

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Speaker 1: in the second hour today, we're going to have an interview.

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Speaker 1: Who are we interviewing? Second hour Fred, We're interviewing let's

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Speaker 1: see Don. I can't find his last name. I should

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Speaker 1: the book that's coming out next week. I believe it is.

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Speaker 1: And we just look through my notes real quick. It's oh,

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Speaker 1: Donald far Sure. We've had Donald on the show before.

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Speaker 1: I should know that. See, I've got too much on

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Speaker 1: my mind today. Plastic clips, plastic clips, the Mustang sixtieth anniversary.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of Mustang, a quick shout out a good friend

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Speaker 1: of this radio show, Shelby Jimmy. Jimmy's a little under

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Speaker 1: the weather this week and we got wind of it,

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Speaker 1: and Jimmy, we hope you're feeling better and know that

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Speaker 1: this Wednesday night. So but right now, let's pull over

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Speaker 6: But when it comes to fixing cars, Ron has car

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Speaker 1: Eight five to five, five six zero, nine to nine

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Speaker 1: up in New York, Joe. Welcome to the car doctor sir,

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Speaker 3: Ron? I have a nineteen ninety two four E three fifty.

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Speaker 3: It's a dually used on the Winnebago. It's a twenty

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Speaker 3: four footter. So since it's so old, the AC unit

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Speaker 3: was converted from R twelve to one thirty four. It

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Speaker 3: wasn't blowing cold, and I bought the EVAC system the

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Speaker 3: hoses and I had success. I got it to blow

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Speaker 3: cold again, Ron, But when I went to remove the

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Speaker 3: high pressure hose, I had a leaking from the high

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Speaker 3: pressure port, so I had to reconnect the hoses. And

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Speaker 3: so my question to you, Ron is how would you

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Speaker 3: deal with the leaking high pressure port? Should I use

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Speaker 3: my valve STEMD tool remover and just try and back

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Speaker 3: leaking port from the high pressure and I guess it

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Speaker 3: could leak from the pressure from the other listeners.

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Speaker 1: How would you handle that either side? So you know,

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Speaker 1: R twelve setup, just the norm without a conversion, all right,

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Speaker 1: So do you you know if we were in the shop,

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Speaker 1: I would draw out what's in there? I'd have the

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Speaker 1: and then I would take the shrader out and start

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Speaker 1: with taking the strader out and just replacing it with

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Speaker 1: a new shrader. And eight times, at eighty percent of

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Speaker 1: the time that works. All right, And it's funny, Joe.

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Speaker 1: You'll take that strader out, You'll look at it, you'll

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Speaker 1: look at it. You'll never see what's wrong with it.

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Speaker 1: It's really crazy. I never you know, It's just it's maddening.

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Speaker 1: Now if I don't have if I don't have the

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Speaker 1: luxury of a machine, and again not counting how it

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Speaker 1: was converted, they do make. Have you seen, and I

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Speaker 1: think maybe you're talking about it, the devices that attach

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Speaker 1: to the schraders where you can take the hose off,

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Speaker 1: put this on, take the shrader valve out with the

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Speaker 1: system charge, remove the shrader, and then put the new

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Speaker 1: one back in. Have you seen that?

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Speaker 3: Now I have it. That's probably more in depth than

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Speaker 1: No, not at all, No, not at all. Do you

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Speaker 3: Can you? Yes? I'm sure I can't. I can bring

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Speaker 1: Okay, Well, right now, what's what's on the system right now?

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Speaker 3: So when I reconnected the uh the fixtures to the

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Speaker 1: How can I help?

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Speaker 8: Yeah, second tall, second caller, long time listener, Thank you, sir. Yes, so, okay,

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Speaker 8: I have an issue with my twenty eighteen Rep. Four

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Speaker 8: And what's happening is that the motor or the engine

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Speaker 1: Okay, and any dashboard warning lights on, so nope.

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Speaker 7: Board warning lights whatsoever. Now, what I did do is

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Speaker 2: So I replaced it.

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Speaker 7: With the NGK iridium spark Plus and that's what I

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Speaker 7: that didn't work. When I replaced the spark plug, it's

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Speaker 7: still shutter between sixteen eighteen hundred. Now, I also replaced

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Speaker 8: And when I changed it, no change.

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Speaker 7: Whatsoever, it still shutters. Between sixteen eighteen hundred rpm.

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Speaker 1: All right, has anybody tried to diagnose this instead of

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Speaker 3: No? Not yet.

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Speaker 7: So the thing is, I have a appointment with the

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Speaker 3: Go ahead.

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Speaker 1: I was going to say, let me ask you this.

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Speaker 1: The car has one hundred and thirty eight thousand miles

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Speaker 1: Well, there is no there is no There is no

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Speaker 8: Okay, So transmission fluid change only because the sealed transmission,

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Speaker 1: Right, it's it's you know, this is forever transmission fluid,

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 1: Maintenance puts the odds in your corner all right maintenance

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Speaker 1: centrifical Yeah, you ever look at how a centrifical clutch works.

433
00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:37,040
Speaker 1: The faster it goes, the shoes throw out and lock

434
00:22:37,119 --> 00:22:39,119
Speaker 1: into the drum to give it more of a So

435
00:22:39,280 --> 00:22:41,960
Speaker 1: that's that's how a torque converter works on a modern vehicle.

436
00:22:42,040 --> 00:22:45,640
Speaker 1: It's it's basically there's a set of shoes in there

437
00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:48,480
Speaker 1: that are hydraulically applied and locked to the outer drum

438
00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:52,240
Speaker 1: to create a mechanical lock. But if those shoes are glazed,

439
00:22:52,280 --> 00:22:55,159
Speaker 1: if those shoes are worn, if they're chomped up and

440
00:22:55,280 --> 00:22:58,720
Speaker 1: bit up, they're not gonna have that smooth apply. And

441
00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:01,840
Speaker 1: right in that sixteen eighteen hundred rpm sweet spot it

442
00:23:01,960 --> 00:23:03,920
Speaker 1: starts to apply. It doesn't want to apply. It's like

443
00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:07,639
Speaker 1: dragging your fingers across the shower glass. And sometimes it

444
00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:11,120
Speaker 1: moves smoothly, and sometimes it makes that horrible screeching sound,

445
00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:12,879
Speaker 1: you know, depending upon how wet.

446
00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:15,960
Speaker 3: Or dry they are. So, okay, let me ask you this.

447
00:23:16,119 --> 00:23:20,440
Speaker 7: So would having a tran service help it fix it?

448
00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:22,879
Speaker 7: Or it's just only a temporary band aid type.

449
00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:25,960
Speaker 1: Well, it depends, all right, It depends on you know,

450
00:23:26,040 --> 00:23:27,720
Speaker 1: what color is the fluid. The first thing, if we

451
00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:30,679
Speaker 1: were standing in the shop, all right, the first thing

452
00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:32,240
Speaker 1: I'm going to do is go for a road test.

453
00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:37,440
Speaker 1: I'm going to try holding my foot gently on the break,

454
00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:41,399
Speaker 1: all right. And the reason I'm doing that is because

455
00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:43,440
Speaker 1: I want to apply, and I want to fool the

456
00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:46,359
Speaker 1: computer so that it doesn't go into lock up so

457
00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:49,480
Speaker 1: it won't apply the converter, all right. And generally this

458
00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:51,560
Speaker 1: works on most toyotas. I can't say it works on

459
00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:54,400
Speaker 1: an eighteen and it probably does. I haven't tried it specifically.

460
00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:56,720
Speaker 1: There's some other things i'd normally look for. What I'm

461
00:23:56,760 --> 00:23:59,159
Speaker 1: trying to do is provide input to the PCM to

462
00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:03,520
Speaker 1: keep converter from applying, to see if the problem goes away.

463
00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:05,600
Speaker 1: If the problem doesn't go away, but it is a

464
00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:08,960
Speaker 1: trans shutter, I know it's not just the converter, it's

465
00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:11,560
Speaker 1: in the trans itself. I'm also gonna be looking at

466
00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:16,000
Speaker 1: misfire indicators, both by scan tool and looking deeper into

467
00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:18,760
Speaker 1: its Mode six language. All this stuff is deep for you.

468
00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:21,480
Speaker 1: I get it. You know. If I was a medical doctor,

469
00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:23,480
Speaker 1: i'd be telling you. You're telling me you had chest pains.

470
00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:24,800
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be looking to see did you have a

471
00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:28,760
Speaker 1: heart attack, did you have you know, heartburn? Or was

472
00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:30,639
Speaker 1: it just a body ache. I'm trying to sort that

473
00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:35,000
Speaker 1: out once I'm confident enough that it's trans that it's

474
00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:37,720
Speaker 1: transmission related. If the fluid is dark and dirty, which

475
00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:39,679
Speaker 1: I'm suspecting it, is it a buck forty that has

476
00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:42,520
Speaker 1: never been changed. Yeah, I'm gonna try changing the fluid.

477
00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:44,359
Speaker 1: And there is a way you can change the fluid.

478
00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:47,600
Speaker 1: There's a drain, there's a fill, there's a specific procedure,

479
00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:50,520
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna change the fluid once drive it. I'm

480
00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:53,960
Speaker 1: gonna change the fluid twice, drive it, and depending upon

481
00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:56,520
Speaker 1: how and if it improves, I may change it a

482
00:24:56,600 --> 00:24:59,440
Speaker 1: third time. Because what I'm trying to do, I'm trying

483
00:24:59,480 --> 00:25:03,560
Speaker 1: to put that that shift additive, that vitamin back into

484
00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:06,280
Speaker 1: the vehicle so that the fluid, so that you get

485
00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:08,520
Speaker 1: it so that the bands get you know, back to

486
00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:12,200
Speaker 1: the point where they'll apply smoothly. We've done this, not

487
00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:14,320
Speaker 1: just us, but a lot of repair shops have done

488
00:25:14,320 --> 00:25:17,760
Speaker 1: this with a great deal of success. And I would

489
00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:20,480
Speaker 1: say I'd give it a two thirds maybe three quarters

490
00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:23,359
Speaker 1: of the time it works. Sometimes the trans is too

491
00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:25,920
Speaker 1: far gone. But if it is in the trands, and

492
00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:28,960
Speaker 1: here's the catch, if it is in the trans the

493
00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:31,840
Speaker 1: only alternative is to overhaul it and replace it. So

494
00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:36,400
Speaker 1: you're what you're doing is you're gambling three hundred dollars

495
00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:38,439
Speaker 1: worth of service each time you service it, and if

496
00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:40,280
Speaker 1: you see an improvement after the first one, you do

497
00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:44,680
Speaker 1: the second, or you're replacing. You're replacing the transmission, which

498
00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:47,800
Speaker 1: will vary in price depending upon where you live, anywhere

499
00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:51,040
Speaker 1: from five to seven grand as an educated guess. So

500
00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:54,080
Speaker 1: you know, you start weighing it back and forth, that

501
00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:57,960
Speaker 1: vehicle typically goes two hundred thousand, so it's it's worth

502
00:25:58,000 --> 00:25:59,680
Speaker 1: the gamble question.

503
00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:01,480
Speaker 2: Okay, okay.

504
00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:03,920
Speaker 7: This one other note I did not mention is that

505
00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:09,840
Speaker 7: there's a bulletin out there that only covers twenty sixteen

506
00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:14,760
Speaker 7: rap fours about the shuttling, and Toyota has acknowledged that

507
00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:18,560
Speaker 7: something about the torque converter, R box control or something, right,

508
00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:21,800
Speaker 7: because but it only applies to sixteen, and well I

509
00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:26,480
Speaker 7: have eighteen, So I'm just wondering, is that that's like

510
00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:28,760
Speaker 7: under the same No, because.

511
00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:31,600
Speaker 1: They changed vendors, all right, from the guy who was

512
00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:33,840
Speaker 1: making it in sixteen to a different one seventeen and

513
00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:37,240
Speaker 1: eighteen and later on a sixteen. But the additive characteristic

514
00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:41,359
Speaker 1: of the fluid is the condition. It's not it's not

515
00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:43,919
Speaker 1: because of that converter. That converter can cause a problem

516
00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:47,159
Speaker 1: all by itself. But your concern is changing the fluid

517
00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:49,560
Speaker 1: as a preemptive strike, which is why you normally do

518
00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:52,680
Speaker 1: it at sixty or ninety, depending upon how much you drive.

519
00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:55,480
Speaker 1: You know, it's funny and I've got to run down,

520
00:26:55,600 --> 00:26:57,760
Speaker 1: but I've got to say that in the majority of

521
00:26:57,880 --> 00:27:01,119
Speaker 1: vehicles that get fluid services on a regular basis, for

522
00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:04,320
Speaker 1: the cars that they say never change this, they seem

523
00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:06,120
Speaker 1: to be the ones that have the least amount of problems.

524
00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:08,160
Speaker 1: Maintenance is still the case. Let me know what ends

525
00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:09,840
Speaker 1: up happening. But I bet your Toyota tells you to

526
00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:13,040
Speaker 1: start with the trans fluid service, and you know that'll

527
00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:14,680
Speaker 1: probably put you on the right path. Let us know

528
00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:16,680
Speaker 1: what happens. I'm running any in the car. Doctor. We're

529
00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:33,720
Speaker 1: back right after this. Welcome back, and let's go to

530
00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:36,399
Speaker 1: Let's go to Brian in Florida. Brian, how are you

531
00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:37,959
Speaker 1: down there? Florida? Away? How's everything?

532
00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:39,040
Speaker 7: Hey?

533
00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:42,320
Speaker 2: Hey, hey, Ron, I'm good. We made it through the hurricane.

534
00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:47,040
Speaker 2: We were just outside that inner cone of wind.

535
00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:48,080
Speaker 3: We lucked out.

536
00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:50,439
Speaker 2: It went a little bit north, but so we got hit.

537
00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:53,000
Speaker 2: I lost a lot of shingles from what.

538
00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:53,679
Speaker 1: Part of Florida?

539
00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:54,560
Speaker 2: You get the help?

540
00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:56,040
Speaker 1: What part of the un.

541
00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:58,800
Speaker 2: Park about eighty miles south of Orlando.

542
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:02,360
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, but everybody's will so good?

543
00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:05,600
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, no in this area. But I'm not unlike

544
00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:07,960
Speaker 2: the coasts, so sadly yeah yeah yeah.

545
00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:09,360
Speaker 1: So how can I help you? How can I help

546
00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:09,680
Speaker 1: you today.

547
00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:12,920
Speaker 2: So okay, yeah, I got I've got a twenty twenty

548
00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:19,119
Speaker 2: one BMW three thirty I beautiful car went in for

549
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:24,679
Speaker 2: a routine oil change last spring. Car had about fifteen thousand.

550
00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:27,040
Speaker 2: The service manager told me that he in addition to

551
00:28:27,119 --> 00:28:30,639
Speaker 2: aill change, he recommended a break fluid change. Okay, and

552
00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:33,240
Speaker 2: he said, I asked, and he said, because this is

553
00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:35,920
Speaker 2: some kind of a sensor or electrical opponent or something

554
00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:39,560
Speaker 2: that's involved with the brake fluid. And they want if

555
00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:42,240
Speaker 2: if I got went bad, it would be like a

556
00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:47,680
Speaker 2: four thousand dollars repair. So I don't know, I don't

557
00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:50,080
Speaker 2: know if you've ever heard of anything like that on

558
00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:50,640
Speaker 2: any car.

559
00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:54,440
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, so let's let's talk about break fluid by design.

560
00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:56,680
Speaker 1: And this is easy enough. You can you can research

561
00:28:56,760 --> 00:28:59,880
Speaker 1: it afterwards and just google break fluid and water absorption.

562
00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:04,680
Speaker 1: Break fluid has a tendency to attract moisture, all right.

563
00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:06,960
Speaker 1: If you ever, if you ever notice that, you know,

564
00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:09,160
Speaker 1: all break fluid bottles, go into your local parts house,

565
00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:10,760
Speaker 1: or the next time you're in the grocery aisle looking

566
00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:12,880
Speaker 1: at and you walk by break fluid, it always says

567
00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:16,080
Speaker 1: keep lid on tightly when not in use. Right, that's

568
00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:18,400
Speaker 1: because they're trying to keep moisture out of the fluid.

569
00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:22,520
Speaker 1: Break fluid absorbs roughly two to three and a half

570
00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:27,640
Speaker 1: percent of moisture per year, So a system that's two

571
00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:31,360
Speaker 1: going on three years old can have upwards of five

572
00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:35,880
Speaker 1: to six percent volume displaced by moisture. In theory, depending

573
00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:40,960
Speaker 1: upon environment. Okay, you know the damage there becomes a

574
00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:43,920
Speaker 1: couple of things happen. Number one, if it's anything less

575
00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:47,160
Speaker 1: than pure break fluid, the hydraulic action isn't isn't as

576
00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:50,320
Speaker 1: good as it could be because water is not compressible

577
00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:53,520
Speaker 1: and it affects hydraulic operation of the system. Number two,

578
00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:56,200
Speaker 1: you know, you've got a lot of vehicles out there

579
00:29:56,240 --> 00:30:00,520
Speaker 1: with abs components, you know, steal sleeves, you know internal

580
00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:04,720
Speaker 1: componentry that now you've got moisture laying against it. Over time,

581
00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:09,040
Speaker 1: it'll rust, so it becomes expensive. So the dealer, the

582
00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:13,080
Speaker 1: dealer service manager is not necessarily incorrect. Yeah, if they've

583
00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:15,080
Speaker 1: got a sensor in there and they've had experience where

584
00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:19,320
Speaker 1: that sensor reacts to moisture, guess what. Now, if you

585
00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:23,160
Speaker 1: look in your owner's manual, I'm almost gonna bet you

586
00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:25,720
Speaker 1: that's somewhere in there, it's gonna say, hey, you know,

587
00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:31,040
Speaker 1: break fluid is a replaceable, replaceable fluid based on time

588
00:30:31,440 --> 00:30:34,880
Speaker 1: or mileage vehicles three years old. Now you're kind of

589
00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:38,920
Speaker 1: in that sweet spot. So yeah, I say go for it.

590
00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:41,040
Speaker 1: It's proper care. You know, you got to remember, you know,

591
00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:44,080
Speaker 1: we talk about how cars aren't really rocket science, and

592
00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:47,680
Speaker 1: then there's BMW. You know you are driving you are

593
00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:48,880
Speaker 1: driving a rocket ship.

594
00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:49,160
Speaker 3: Brother.

595
00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:52,760
Speaker 2: All right, I'm gonna I'm just being onto this and

596
00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:57,760
Speaker 2: tell us running on its axles and whatever, because you

597
00:30:57,800 --> 00:30:59,520
Speaker 2: know I'll get I'll get beat on the trade.

598
00:30:59,560 --> 00:30:59,960
Speaker 3: On the trade.

599
00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:03,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I like the cart so but.

600
00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:05,480
Speaker 1: By all means, I would I would, I would replace.

601
00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:08,960
Speaker 1: I would replace brake fluid at fifteen thousand, regardless because

602
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:10,640
Speaker 1: of it's three going on four years old.

603
00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:13,479
Speaker 2: All right, very good, so that helps a lot.

604
00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:13,680
Speaker 3: Ron.

605
00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:14,440
Speaker 2: Thank you very much.

606
00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:17,360
Speaker 1: You're very welcome, sir. Be well, be safe, uh be well,

607
00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:19,000
Speaker 1: be safe. Yeah. I talk to a friend of mine

608
00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:23,120
Speaker 1: in Florida. He is down I think he's around Orlando,

609
00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:27,840
Speaker 1: and Carrie has no power, he has no electricity, he

610
00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:31,440
Speaker 1: has no internet, he has spotty cell service, and they're

611
00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:34,240
Speaker 1: all just kind of hanging on. Fortunately he's on generator

612
00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:36,600
Speaker 1: and he's hoping at lasts, but they've got no projected

613
00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:39,440
Speaker 1: electrical return date. It's got to be crazy. Eight five

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00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:41,520
Speaker 1: five five six zero nine nine zero zero. The Car

615
00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:57,280
Speaker 1: Doctor's coming back right after this. Blucome back running any

616
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Speaker 1: in the Car Doctor eight five five five six zero

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Speaker 1: nineine zero zero. The phone number to get it out

618
00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:03,200
Speaker 1: there twenty four to seven. You can call if we're

619
00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:05,120
Speaker 1: not on the air, leave a message and we will

620
00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:06,920
Speaker 1: call you back and hook you up. You can also

621
00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:09,760
Speaker 1: get out the card doctorshow dot com and get out

622
00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:12,480
Speaker 1: to the contact us Paige this Wednesday. As a matter

623
00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:15,560
Speaker 1: of fact, we'll be doing some recording Wednesday night. So

624
00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:17,840
Speaker 1: if you leave a message on the contact us page,

625
00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:20,000
Speaker 1: fill out the form, chances are we'll call you back,

626
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:23,440
Speaker 1: get your message up, and we're recording free an upcoming

627
00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:26,240
Speaker 1: show that's going to be live taped. If you know

628
00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:27,960
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, on the weekend of the twenty sixth,

629
00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:30,240
Speaker 1: I want to talk to you about vehicle maintenance and repair.

630
00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:33,000
Speaker 1: We're at that time of year right, we're just you know,

631
00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:36,560
Speaker 1: it's October, we're getting close. You know that white stuff

632
00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:38,040
Speaker 1: is coming soon and along with it the cold. The

633
00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:39,840
Speaker 1: cold's already here in parts of New Jersey as well

634
00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:42,120
Speaker 1: as upstate. A couple of things I want to talk about.

635
00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:44,520
Speaker 1: I want to talk about batteries real quick. This seems

636
00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:47,120
Speaker 1: to be a hot button topic, no pun intended, but

637
00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:50,160
Speaker 1: a lot of us seem to wait until our batteries

638
00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:52,880
Speaker 1: die to replace them. And I want to throw this

639
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:55,640
Speaker 1: out there, and I can't take credit for it. Someone

640
00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:57,880
Speaker 1: by the name of Becky Witch. She runs a repair

641
00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:01,360
Speaker 1: shop in Lincoln, Nebraska. She talks about all the time about,

642
00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:04,760
Speaker 1: you know, replacing batteries based on time conducive to how

643
00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:07,320
Speaker 1: they fail in her regions. And I think that's very

644
00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:09,560
Speaker 1: smart of her and the way she runs the shop.

645
00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:13,040
Speaker 1: Obviously she's well known as a shop management instructor, but

646
00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:15,400
Speaker 1: she makes comments about, you know, if the batteries fail

647
00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:17,520
Speaker 1: at three years, change them at three years, because the

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Speaker 1: warranty is only good when you have to warrantee it.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 1: It's just a common sense approach to water repair. Batteries

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Speaker 1: are not maintenance. Batteries are a lifeline. Batteries ensure that

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Speaker 1: the vehicle, or they're part of the insurance policy that

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Speaker 1: the vehicle will start at all hours of the day

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Speaker 1: and night, and all kinds of weather. So if you're

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Speaker 1: a shop owner and you went through a winter where

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Speaker 1: nobody's battery died, you probably did your job and changed

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Speaker 1: them accordingly. Kudos to Becky Witt. I'm not an ady

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Speaker 1: in the car doctor. Good mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless.

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